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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

My Husband's Dresser

I didn't want to clean today. I've got two sick kids right now, including the baby. He was up several times last night with a cough. At one point, I turned the shower on full blast and sat in the steam in the bathroom with him. It worked. He slept much better after that, but I didn't. There isn't enough coffee in the world to make me feel energetic today.

I was looking around for a cleaning project that would be easy. I'm not sure if my husband's dresser qualifies, but it didn't require any mental energy, so it got the 15-minute treatment.

Probably like most guys in the U.S., my husband has a lot of t-shirts. They take up three drawers of his dresser and are crammed in around the shorts, swim trunks, a few sweatshirts and some blue jeans.

I don't know why I never thought of this before, but it occurred to me that I should roll his t-shirts like I would if I were packing a suitcase to save room. It worked great! There's now two layers 0f t-shirts and swim trunks in this drawer. Another, larger drawer has three layers of rolled t-shirts along with some shorts. The bottom drawer has a few pairs of shorts and a lot of empty space!

Anything bulky, like sweatshirts, got hung on his side of the closet. I found a few things to add to the donation pile.

Hey, great idea! Like you, my husband has tons of T shirts. I'm going to try this tomorrow. I love to declutter, it's like a drug high (but legal). I want to do a post on the 'perks' of decluttering. Will do it soon. I've done all the decluttering I can with my stuff--if only I could get my hands on my husband's stuff...